The Oakland Raiders are Dead to Me

From the time I was 7 until the Raiders left for Oakland in 1994 (about nine years time), I went to nearly every home game at the Coliseum. During their subsequent years in Oakland, I followed every play, every win, every loss and every season-ending disappointment.
I cried when Tony Siragusa sat on Rich Gannon effectively [...]

Debate No. 1 – Foreign Policy

I’m not going to say who won, or who lost the first presidential debate. I think it’s silly to pretend that someone can “win” a debate. So, here are my thoughts on foreign policy only (the economy will be center stage next debate):

McCain IS very experienced in foreign policy. This is his strength. He did [...]

This is why they don’t allow interviews

Remember when the Obama wagon started rolling and Chris Matthews embarassed a supporter who couldn’t name a single piece of legislation that the senator authored or sponsored? Well, that was just a supporter and, I believe, a regional campaigner.
In the upcoming Katie Couric-Sarah Palin interview, Couric presses Palin about what Senator McCain has done to [...]

“Obama Waffles” and “Values voters”

Am I the only one to see the inherent irony in these being sold at a “Values Voters” conference?

Learning from the past – Fear wins

So, ever since I heard about livingroomcandidate.org on Slate’s Political Gabfest, I’ve been hooked. It’s a roundup of almost all of the presidential ads since 1952. Some of the ads are pure genius (and sick) like this one, which basically said, “Vote for Johnson, or die”:

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However, for the Obama [...]

Glad I’m not voting with these people

the charles gibson interview was a personal attack on gov. palins accomplishments WHO THE HELL IS BARACK HUSSIEN OBAMA AND WHAT HAS HE DONE?
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Lost for words (so I use expletives)

I can truthfully say the following:

Sarah Palin doesn’t believe in human-caused global warming
Sarah Palin supported the “bridge to nowhere” and begged for earmarks while mayor of Wasilla and then governor of Alaska (even though earmarks aren’t the demons that McPalin paints them out to be)
Sarah Palin encourages shooting wolves from airplanes (and anywhere else for [...]

The DNC’s New RepublicLie Counter

They don’t call it the “RepublicLie Counter,” but that’s basically what it is and it went live today.
The new Count the Lies Web site uses fact checking to discredit many of the McPalin campaign’s claims.
My favs:
FactCheck.org: McCain Ad “Less Than Honest” About use of FactCheck.org: With its latest ad, released Sept. 10, the McCain-Palin campaign [...]

I’ve been to the moon

… just as Palin’s been to Iraq. Shocking: Republicans lying for political gain.

Do they not know? Or are they lying?

So, I’ve often visited FactCheck.org during election time to see whether or not the candidates are telling the truth. Usually both candidates stretch the truth equally. Sometimes they can legitimately be accused of lying, but for the most part the fibs are limited to exaggerations.
But this morning when I opened FactCheck.org, which is run by [...]